Car-loader.



No. 677,24I. Patented lune 25, |901.

S. E. KURTZ.

CAR LOADER.

(Application led 1hr. 8, 1901.)

A 7TOHNEYS thermen STATES SAMUEL E. KURTZ, OF SAO OITY, IOIVA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO HENRY KURTZ, OF SAME PLACE.

CAR-LOADER.

SPECFICATION formingpart of Letters :Patent No. 677,241, dated June 25, 1901.

Application filed March 8, 1901. Serial No. 50,314.. (No model.)

T 0 all wtont t may concern:

Beitknown that I, SAMUEL E. KURTZ, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Sac Oity, in the county of Sac and State of Iowa, have invented a new and Improved Oar- Loader, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in car-loaders; and the object is to provide a simple device for carrying grain or other material into a car and operating to simultaneously load or discharge material toward opposite ends of the car.

I will describe a car-loader embodying my invention and then point out the novel features in the appended claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a car and a loader embodying my invention in connection therewith, and Fig. 2 is a section on the line :o a; of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a conveyer-tube designed to be passed through the doorway of a car and suspended at its inner end from the roof of the car. I have shown it as suspended by means of .a chain 2, connected to a rafter. The outer end may be supported from a building or a grainelevator by a hook 3 or the like, and from the building or grain-elevator the material passes through a chute 4 into the hopper 5 at theouter end of the tube. Extended longitudinally through the tube is a shaft 6, on which is a screw conveyer 7, and this shaft may be rotated by any suitable means-such, for instance, as by a band engaging with a pulley 8 on the outer end of the shaft. The inner end of the' tube communicates with a fan-casing 9, having opposite discharge-openings lO and 11, which are designed to point towardopposite ends of the car, and mounted on the shaft G and operating in the fan-casing is a fan 12. Therefore it will be seen that the same power that operates the screw conveyer will operate the fan.

In operation the material passing into the hopper 5 will be carried along the conveyer- A device embodying my invention will be made comparatively light, so that it can be readily handled for placing it in a car and removing it therefrom.

Having thus described my invention, Iv

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. Acar-loader,comprisingaconveyer-tube closed on all its sides and having a fan-easing at one end, provided with opposite openings,l a shaft extended through the tube, ascrew conveyer on said shaft, a fan mounted on the shaft within the fan-casing, and means for suspending the tube from the roof of a car, substantially as specified.

2. Acarloader,cornprisingaconveyer-tube having a hopper at one end and a fan-casing at the opposite end, the said fan-casing being provided with opposite discharge-openings, a shaft extended through the tube and through said casing, a screw conveyer mounted on the shaft within Vthe tube, a fan attached to the shaft within the casing, and means for suspending the inner end of the tube from the roof of a car, substantially as specified.

3. A car-loader, comprising a tube having a hopper at one end and a fan-casing at the other'end, the said fan-oasing`having opposite openings through which material may discharge toward opposite ends of a car, a shaft extended through the tube and through the casing, a screw conveyer on said shaft within the tube, a fan on said shaft within the casing, a driving-pulley on the outer extendedV end of said shaft, and means for stipporting the inner end of the loader from the roofV of a car, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. v

SAMUEL E. KURTZ.

'Witnessesz PHIL. ScHALLnR, OARUsI A. PRATT. 

